Airport Link testing. A Kinkisharyo-Mitsui LRV is parked on the elevated guideway that leads to SeaTac/Airport station a short distance from Tukwila International Boulevard Station. November, 2009. Kinkisharyo International was just awarded Los Angeles’ rail car contract. Credit: Oran Viriyincy/Flickr/Creative Commons Los Angeles Metro officials are awarding an $890-million rail car contract to the Japanese […]

Every aspect of our mental lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, the other unconscious. This hidden aspect, of which we are unaware, dictates our relationships, our decisions, our actions. Over the past twenty years, scientists have discovered new tools to probe our subliminal minds and uncover its secrets, leading to new understanding of […]

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on January 13, 2012 in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Forget whether or not the debt crisis is over—is a worse one coming? Sluggish job growth and poorer-than-expected corporate earnings still seem to be keeping market analysts on edge, with each tremor […]

Do you use your playlist to enhance a mood? Sony’s Walkman and Apple’s iPod are the two most famous gadgets that put a person’s record collection in their pocket, allowing us to walk around with our own personal life soundtrack. Author Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel “High Fidelity” and its movie adaptation elevated the practice of […]

Prices are advertised for cigarettes March 30, 2009 in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Californians will head to the ballot box in June to vote on Prop 29, which if passed, would boost taxes on a pack of cigarettes in California by $1 (it’s currently .87 cents – and $4.35 in New York). […]

When it comes to rude movie audiences, less is more. You’ve bought your sixteen-dollar tickets, dropped twenty bucks on popcorn and soda at the concession stand and got to the theater early enough to get good seats. Then, after the trailers have started, a rowdy group of people show up and sit right next to […]

Rodney King talks with Patt Morrison about his new book “The Riot Within” and his relationship to the ’92 riots. Credit: KPCC The man whose videotaped beating by police sparked the ’92 Riots talks about his 20 years since. Rodney King has struggled addiction, and has had several run-ins with the law, but keeps a […]

It turns out that 20-somethings might be one of the slowest developing generations ever. Credit: Jonathan Serviss/KPCC Sara works full-time at the Big Save store and earns $2500 a month. Who pays the contributions to Social Security on the $2500 a month that Sara earns? The answer is both Sara and her employer, but if […]

The Tucson sector of the U.S.- Mexico border is considered the most heavily trafficked by illegal immigrants and drug smugglers in the United States. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images Justices at the Court picked apart the Obama administration’s arguments against Arizona’s controversial immigration law today. As SCOTUSblog.com reports, Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia was “pushing the radical […]